It occurs to me that three weeks is maybe too long to keep you all seething and churning with your comments on the FINDERS OF LOST CHILDREN thread. So you can make them here. I'll still keep the "story thread" locked.

Thanks for posting Finders, it's been too long without a new JB book fix. I'm actually liking this format of viewing this work. Something very different. Also this story is very intriguing along with your artwork, wow.

Thanks for the freebie, JB. It only represents a few dollars to each of us, but much more to you. I still hold out hopes for your return to traditional hand-drawn comics and the Byrnverse of characters.

Do you end up changing the dialogue? I was totally flabbergasted at the amount of dialogue, and where you were going to put it. 1st case in point: Page Two, Panels 2, 3 and 4 - where is the room for all those word balloons? and many other places as well.

but i do like the idea of art on the left and text on the right (yes, i'm reformatting this as you post each page). it almost has a "Prince Valiant" vibe to it.

Do you end up changing the dialogue? I was totally flabbergasted at the amount of dialogue, and where you were going to put it. 1st case in point: Page Two, Panels 2, 3 and 4 - where is the room for all those word balloons? and many other places as well.



After forty yar before the mast, I have a pretty good eye for how much space dialog will need.

Is it always the writer's call, or does the letterer sometimes make that call?

 The writer.

In this era of full script, where the writer will often not get to see the art in order to check that the character is correctly 'acting' as the dialogue requires before it goes for lettering, at least half the scripts I get have very little indication as to where the emphasis should go, and it's left to the letterer (me) to make those judgements.

Obviously, the if the writer has put emphasis into the dialogue, then this is observed, but there are many writers nowadays who don't.

In this era of full script, where the writer will often not get to see the art in order to check that the character is correctly 'acting' as the dialogue requires before it goes for lettering, at least half the scripts I get have very little indication as to where the emphasis should go, and it's left to the letterer (me) to make those judgements.

Obviously, the if the writer has put emphasis into the dialogue, then this is observed, but there are many writers nowadays who don't.



One more thing the current crew thinks they're doing right, I guess, ignoring almost a hundred years of logic and tradition. I can't imagine leaving something so important to the discretion of the letterer!

Your comment about the "acting" puzzles me, tho. In this age of full script, have they also abandoned descriptions of what's supposed to be happening in the panel? Or is this a lapse back to the kind of stuff Denny O'Neil used to describe, where a writer's description of an action packed stagecoach chase is rendered by the artist as closeup on a firing six-gun?

Your comment about the "acting" puzzles me, tho. In this age of full script, have they also abandoned descriptions of what's supposed to be happening in the panel?

No, I mean that there's still a lot of leeway in full script, and the writer may imagine a character as being apoplectic with fury when he writes the script and the line, but the art may show the character more coldly furious, making shouty dialogue seem incongruous.

Now, in my book, that right there is what an editor's for: to either send the art back to the artist and say "draw what's in the script, bub!" or to take the decision to sub the script so it fits the art, but the role of editor is frequently reduced to that of traffic management, much to the medium's detriment, IMO.

EDIT: But I'm dragging this off-topic. My apologies. Having clarified, I shall say no more.

I love this. I love the JBNM world and any chance to visit in any format is welcome! I'm really taken by how easy it is to "read" the story silently, then read the dialogue to get another layer. So much of the story is in the art and that's why I am a JB fan.

Great mood with all the vintage stuff, the cars and computers--gorgeous!



One of the fun elements of doing series like this, set in the Past, is coming up with the appropriate "futuristic" equipment. Computers, for example, as we imagined they would be, not as they really turned out to be.

You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot create polls in this forumYou can vote in polls in this forum